Unable to Run Coded Ui Tests on Remote Agent After Installing VS2012

Question

On my local machine running Windows Server 2008 R2 I have a VM with VS2010 test controller and test instances. This allows me to run Coded UI tests locally during development without my machine being taken over. I also have VMs in our data center that I use as load agents for performance testing.

I recently installed VS2012 and now whenever I attempt to run a load test or Coded UI test on either my local VM or one of the load agents it sits in 'Pending' state indefinitely. This happened once before when I installed VS2012 RC and I had to uninstall both versions of VS both 2012 and 2012 in order to get things working again.

Has anyone encountered this issue with 2010 and 2012 installed side-by-side?

Answer 1

Hello Vagwada,

Thank you for your post.

This is a common problem caused by installing VS2010 and VS2012 on the same machine.

For detailed causes, you can reference my reply in the following thread:

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vststest/thread/1cfda153-e817-4911-b657-9da20cc5940f/

And if you want to run tests fine, the better solution usually is to uninstall VS2012.

I hope it can help you.

Best regards,

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Amanda Zhu [MSFT]
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